Does Mark Williams look injured to you? Did LA make the right decision? (Update: Traded to Phoenix)

[In-N-Out 247]

Lmao this is hilarious. Phoenix basically traded Charlotte 3 first round picks, multiple seconds, Nurkic and Josh Okogie for Mark Williams, Cody Martin, Micic and Nick Richards. Talk about horrible asset management.

correction...we traded two late first rounders, Josh Okogie and some seconds for Mark Williams, Nick Richards, and for the privilege of dumping Nurkic's salary.

nurkic was a negative asset and it was the price of doing business.

The sequence of trades is actually really stupid. They traded 3 second round picks for Nick Richards and a second.

Then they traded Nurkic and a 1st for salary filler and another second. You probably could have just traded Nurkic and a first for Nick Richards and save your seconds.

Then they traded 2 more firsts for Mark Williams when you probably could have just worked out a deal of Nurkic and picks for Mark Williams. Now they have 4 Centers and will most likely just let Richards expire to save money or trade him for nothing.

The sequence of events makes no sense if you think about it.

According to Spotrac Nick Richards contract is non-guaranteed - so they could just waive him. It becomes fully guaranteed on 6/29/25.

[iggymcfrack]

The Suns have to be the dumbest team of all-time. Are they trying to make a whole team out of shooting guards and centers? It’s like they’re going for the worst record in the league but they don’t have their own pick for like a decade. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team in a worse position. It’s crazy how quick Ishbia completely wrecked a Finals team.

[Pointgod]

correction...we traded two late first rounders, Josh Okogie and some seconds for Mark Williams, Nick Richards, and for the privilege of dumping Nurkic's salary.

nurkic was a negative asset and it was the price of doing business.

The sequence of trades is actually really stupid. They traded 3 second round picks for Nick Richards and a second.

Then they traded Nurkic and a 1st for salary filler and another second. You probably could have just traded Nurkic and a first for Nick Richards and save your seconds.

Then they traded 2 more firsts for Mark Williams when you probably could have just worked out a deal of Nurkic and picks for Mark Williams. Now they have 4 Centers and will most likely just let Richards expire to save money or trade him for nothing.

The sequence of events makes no sense if you think about it.

According to Spotrac Nick Richards contract is non-guaranteed - so they could just waive him. It becomes fully guaranteed on 6/29/25.

Yeah that’s my point they traded 3 first round picks and seconds and they probably won’t even keep Richards. It’s just a nonsensical way of doing business.

[Dr Aki]

What about now?

[Optimus_Steel]

He doesn’t look injured to me…